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The Supreme Court held that British Columbia civil proceedings, including exhibits, must be conducted in English.
The appellants sought to file French-language exhibits attached to affidavits in constitutional litigation concerning minority-language education rights.
The majority held that British Columbia law required civil court proceedings, including exhibits relied on for their content, to be in English unless impracticable, and that this framework displaced residual inherent jurisdiction to admit untranslated French documents.
The Court further held that the 1731 English statute was received into provincial law and had not been displaced for this issue.
The dissent would have recognized continued inherent jurisdiction absent clear legislative ouster and remitted the matter for discretionary determination.
The appeal was dismissed, with costs awarded to the appellants.
Supreme Court restores Human Rights Tribunal's finding of pay inequity, adopting dissenting reasons from below.
The Supreme Court of Canada heard appeals regarding a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal finding of pay inequity between a largely female group of employees and a largely male comparator group.
The Federal Court of Appeal had previously overturned the Tribunal's finding.
In an oral judgment, the Supreme Court allowed the appeals on the merits, finding no reviewable error by the Tribunal, and dismissed the appeal regarding the reduction of damages, adopting the dissenting reasons of Evans J.A. from the court below.
